The Pride

Pride and perseverance: the motivational role of pride.

Perseverance toward goals that carry short-term costs is an important component of adaptive functioning. The present experiments examine the role that the emotion pride may play in mediating such perseverance. Across 2 studies, pride led to greater perseverance on an effortful and hedonically negative task believed to be related to the initial source of pride. In addition, the causal efficacy o...

The Benefits of Following Your Pride: Authentic Pride Promotes Achievement.

Although the emotion authentic pride has been posited to promote achievement, it remains unclear precisely how this works. Here, we tested whether authentic pride promotes adaptive downstream achievement outcomes by motivating individuals to engage in appropriate behavioral responses to success and failure. In two longitudinal studies (N = 1,132), we measured pride emotional responses to a prio...

The Nature of Pride

As the epigraph illustrates, feeling pride in oneself, or having one’s “passions” “cluster about the ego,” is a central part of human nature. Scheff (1988, p. 399) went so far as to claim, “We are virtually always in a state of pride or shame.” Although this statement may be somewhat extreme, Scheff made a prescient observation: our everyday lives are frequently infused with a sense of mastery ...

Pride & Prejudice

Editorial Napoleon Bonaparte, once emperor of France, commented on the subject of medicine in this way: " Medicine is not an exact and positive science but a science based on conjectures and observations. I would have more confidence in a physician who has not studied the natural sciences than in one who has. " We should consider his words as we face the remarkable development of the field of p...

Running Head: STATUS AND PRIDE Leading with Pride: Do Hubristic and Authentic Pride Underlie the Attainment of Dominance and Prestige?